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03/10/2024
Cities and towns across Czechia joined many of their European neighbours on Sunday in hoisting the Tibetan National Flag to observe the 65th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day on 10 March. The flag is raised not only to express solidarity with Tibet, but also as a reminder that freedom cannot be taken for granted and that human rights are still being violated today in many places around the world.
This gesture of solidarity takes place in several countries every year on March 10 to commemorate the over 80,000 Tibetans who died in the 1959 uprising and the hundreds of thousands more who died in the following years in prisons, labour camps or from famine. The Czech Republic has regularly taken part since 1996.
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03/10/2024
Crowds of people came to Prague Castle on Sunday for Open House Day to see parts of the complex that are usually not open to the public. The first arrivals had already been waiting to enter since 7 a.m. and by the time the gates opened at 9 a.m., a long queue had already formed. President Petr Pavel and First Lady Eva Pavlová welcomed the visitors in the castle's Rothmayer Hall. These otherwise inaccessible areas of the castle complex were open to the public for free until 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.
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03/10/2024
Former US President Bill Clinton arrived in Prague late on Saturday evening, natoaktual.cz reported on social media site X. He is due to speak at the conference 'Our Security Cannot Be Taken For Granted' on Tuesday at Prague Castle, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Czech Republic joining NATO. He came to Prague at the invitation of Czech President Petr Pavel. As well as Clinton, former NATO Secretary General George Robertson is also scheduled to speak at the conference.
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03/10/2024
The Czech Lion Award for the best feature film of 2023 went to the film Brothers by director Tomáš Mašín, which tells the story of the Mašín brothers’ armed resistance group and their dramatic escape from communist Czechoslovakia to West Berlin. Of the 15 awards the film was nominated for, this was the only one it ended up winning at Saturday evening's awards ceremony in Prague's Rudolfinum.
The horror-comedy She Came at Night, jointly directed by Tomáš Pavlíček and Jan Vejnar, received two awards -- Best Actress and Best Director. Simona Peková won the award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the main character, Valerie.
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03/09/2024
A bill to transform Czech Post, the country's state-owned postal company, is currently undergoing an inter-ministerial comments procedure, after which it should head to the lower house for its first reading, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said on Czech Television on Saturday. In the program Týden v politice (The Week in Politics), he said that the bill envisages the state enterprise being split into two parts - one that would continue to provide traditional postal services and would be subsidised by the state, and another that would be a commercial delivery company partly funded by private capital.
This part of the plan has received criticism from some members of the opposition, who say that the profitable part of the company will be handed over to private investors, depriving the state of profit with which it could otherwise have subsidised unprofitable basic services, and meanwhile the state will continue to finance the unprofitable part.
Last year, Czech Post closed over 300 branches across the country and laid off hundreds of employees after its losses in 2022 reached 1.5 billion crowns and it was at risk of insolvency.
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03/09/2024
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for Saturday is a photograph of comet Pons-Brooks taken by Petr Horálek from the Institute of Physics in Opava. The picture was taken on Tuesday near the Slovak town of Revúca. According to the Czech Astronomical Society, Horálek's image is the 65th photograph taken by a Czech to be chosen by NASA for their Astronomy Picture of the Day since it began in 1995.
According to the accompanying explanation to the image, comet Pons-Brooks is a periodic visitor to the inner Solar System and less than 14 light-minutes away.
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03/09/2024
Sunday is expected to be overcast but mostly dry with strong winds in some parts of the country. Daytime temperatures should range between 8 and 13 degrees Celsius.
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03/09/2024
Being allowed to join NATO was a huge relief for Sweden, the Czech ambassador to Stockholm, Anita Grmelová, told the Czech News Agency in an interview. When Finland joined NATO, Sweden lost its largest bilateral partner to some extent, she said, with cooperation not working as well as it did before due to one of the countries being a NATO member while the other was not.
Sweden officially became a member of the alliance on Thursday, with Hungary being the last NATO member to ratify its membership. Both Sweden and Finland, which had been neutral countries during the Cold War, expressed interest in joining NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine.
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03/09/2024
Parts of Czechia will experience gale-force winds of up to 70 km/h this weekend, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute has warned. East Bohemia will be particularly affected and on Sunday Moravia will too.
Czechia's tallest mountain, Sněžka, was already hit by hurricane-force winds on Saturday morning, with wind speeds reaching up to 124 km/h.
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03/09/2024
The head of Czechia’s Sokol gymnastics organisation, Hana Moučková, has resigned following revelations of large-scale bank and credit fraud by her personal assistant, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday. There were media reports over the past week that she had been under pressure to resign from the heads of Sokol branches across Czechia. Her deputy, Martin Chlumský, will be temporarily entrusted with the management of the association.
In January, it was reported that Ms. Moučková's assistant had committed fraud worth at least 40 million crowns before committing suicide at Sokol's Prague HQ when this information came to light.
Marek Tesař, director of the Sokol office, also resigned on Saturday of his own volition, citing the treatment of Ms. Moučková by colleagues and the organisation as a whole as the reason.
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